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The number of children in urban areas in Indonesia has continued to increase. Despite the fact that children in urban areas fare better on several measures of wellbeing compared to those in rural areas, marginalized groups still fail to survive and thrive. Access to services and opportunities for a better quality of life in cities are limited for the urban poor and vulnerable, of which children and young people account for almost a third. This study explores children’s and young people’s characteristics, well-being, and lived experiences, providing a critical foundation for policy and…
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The large number of children living in orphanages across Indonesia, due to economic hardship and limited access to schooling, has urged the government to shift the paradigm in the provision of formal alternative care since the last decade. The policy and practice changes, however, have been encountering several challenges in regards of decentralisation. Referring to the ecosystem theory, the change in the macrosystem has affected the relationship patterns of each system units. The changing government power distribution has shifted the hierarchical relationship between central and…
Prepared for the Agenda 2030 for Children: End Violence Solutions Summit, held in Stockholm, Sweden, on 14-15 February 2018, this report tracks progress towards prohibition and elimination of corporal punishment of children in Pathfinding countries. Under the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, these countries have committed to three to five years of accelerated action towards target 16.2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): “End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children.”
The Solutions Summit aims to…
In order to increase its knowledge on the possible issue of de-institutionalisation in developing countries and how it could be addressed, the European Commission Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) commissioned SOS Children’s Villages International to conduct the present study. Its general objective was to “conduct a research on the possible issue of institutionalisation in six South and Central American, Asian and African countries in order to strengthen the knowledge of the European Commission on the nature, the extent and scope of…
This report examines current policy framework and practices in five countries, namely Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and the Republic of Nauru. The research is the result of extensive desk-based research, stakeholder consultations in South East Asia and interviews with child asylum seekers and refugees. The research documents current practices in detention of child asylum seekers and refugees, the conditions of detention and the impact of detention on children. It also explores available alternatives to detention in these countries and emerging…
This video highlights the importance of keeping children with families.
This Supervision Guideline document from Save the Children contains guidelines and underlying principles for Pusan Dukungan Anak dan Keluarga (PDAK) child and family support centre social workers in working with children and families.
The guidelines include outlines for minimum standards of access to and quality of services, supervisory party roles, and supervisor responsibilities. Underlying principles encompass the definition of social work supervision along with core functions.
Supervision is defined “as designated interaction between two or more case managers, within a safe…
This presentation, given at the Social Service Workforce and the Practice of Working with Vulnerable Children and Families Symposium, provides an overview of a child welfare curriculum development and training project for social work faculty in Indonesia. The project was convened by Save the Children in partnership with Building Professional Social Work (BPSW), a project of Building Bridges to the Future Foundation, and the US National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (NRCPFC) at Silberman School of Social Work of Hunter College in New York.
The presentation includes a…
This working paper, produced by the Better Care Network and the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance, explores the topic of social service workforce strengthening as it relates to child care reform. It is intended to be a useful resource for reform efforts and a practical and accessible overview for use by policy-makers, practitioners, and service providers in contexts that are either considering the implications of care reforms for their social service workforce or are already engaged in a process and are searching for strategies to align and increase the effectiveness of the workforce…
This video showcases the Family-based care program of Save the Children and its partners in Indonesia, highlighting different aspects of the program working with government, schools of social work, residential care providers, children and their families.